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Canadian Medical Association Journal

1998 CMA PRQ

Personal internet use

How often do you personally use or do the following on the Internet?

% of total physicians who use the Internet at least monthly for each specific activity

  Overall Female Male 34 and under 35-44 45-54 55-64 65 and over
Total 3385 958 2427 330 1118 1039 609 289
Email 51% 39% 55% 54% 55% 54% 46% 29%
Discussion Groups 12% 6% 15% 9% 13% 15% 11% 4%
Ordering Documents / Books 13% 7% 16% 11% 15% 13% 13% 7%
Bibliographic Database searching 42% 31% 46% 44% 48% 44% 35% 23%
Worldwide Web 47% 31% 52% 50% 52% 50% 38% 24%
CMA Online Website 15% 9% 17% 17% 16% 16% 15% 8%
CMA CPG Infobase 9% 5% 10% 14% 8% 10% 8% 4%


% of total physicians who use the Internet at least monthly for each specific activity

  GP/FP Med Spec Surg Spec Rural Urban
Total 1736 1184 465 294 3091
Email 45% 59% 52% 46% 51%
Discussion Groups 10% 15% 13% 10% 12%
Ordering Documents / Books 10% 17% 15% 15% 13%
Bibliographic Database searching 33% 54% 43% 36% 42%
Worldwide Web 40% 55% 48% 45% 47%
CMA Online Website 16% 15% 13% 19% 15%
CMA CPG Infobase 10% 7% 7% 11% 9%